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The General Professional Recognition Learning and Skills scheme (GPRLS) enables experienced but unqualified teachers of SfL subjects to be recognised as a qualified member of the workforce. It is a process designed for those for whom undertaking an initial teacher training qualification would be inappropriate and will be opened up to other competent and experienced teachers in due course. An earlier Professional Recognition scheme (PRLS) was run specifically for experienced but unqualified teachers of Skills for Life subjects. Standards Verification UK will, as with PRLS, administer the scheme on behalf of Lifelong Learning UK.
What are the benefits of gaining Professional Recognition?Successful applicants are placed on the Recognition register and become eligible to go on to apply for the status of either Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) or Associate Teacher Learning and Skills (ATLS). These are the new licences to practise and are conferred by the Institute for Learning. Who will be able to apply?The new scheme is open to:
• new entrants to the learning and skills sector as one route to gaining licensed status
• those part way to achieving the qualification for their role when the 2007 regulations were implemented
• existing members of the workforce who voluntarily wish to seek licensed status. What areas of learning are covered by the scheme?The General Recognition process will be developed in phases from the late Autumn onwards. The Skills for Life subjects Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL, will be in the first phase. Further information will be posted shortly at: http://www.lifelonglearninguk.org/svuk/gprls/gprls_index.html |
